"Knock knock, knock knock...... Knock knock knock...... Knock knock ......"

"Here!

Autumn has turned to winter, the weather has turned cooler, and the trend is getting colder and colder, most people like to hide in the warm bed and sleep longer, Sophia is no exception. But on this morning, Sophia, who was greedy for her sleep, was woken up by a quick knock on the door. Sophia, who was half-asleep and half-awake, answered casually, pulled open the warm quilt in a daze, and sat up from the bed.

The cold air seeped through the cracks in the wooden planks of the simple stilt house, which made Sophia, who was thinly dressed, shiver, and most of her sleepiness disappeared suddenly. Sophia rubbed her eyes, grabbed the woolen shawl that lay beside the bed, put it on top of her body, which was only wearing a suspender nightdress as thin as a cicada's wings, and staggered towards the door.

When she opened the door, she found a female soldier standing next to Alice, who looked very nervous and anxious. Sophia immediately realized that something might be unusual and immediately asked, "What happened?"

"Your Royal Highness Princess, Instructor Owen, he is ill. ”

"Sick?"

"yes, it was discovered just now that Instructor Owen vomited a lot of blood in his own bedroom and passed out. Captain Alice asked me to come over and let you know right away, saying you can ...... Princess, princess, wait, wait for me!"

Before the female soldier could finish speaking, Sophia had already rushed out, because she was running so fast that the woolen shawl on her body fell to the ground without noticing, and the female soldier hurriedly picked up the shawl from the ground and chased after it desperately.

Sophia rushed into Owen's bedroom at a speed she couldn't recall afterwards. By this time, Alice had already arrived in the bedroom after dressing, and several other male officers were present.

Because Sophia had run in such a hurry that she had lost her slippers, she had come in barefoot, with one of the suspenders of her nightdress slipping off. Originally, Sophia's stunning beauty and delicate figure were already very attractive, but because she usually showed people with a solemn priest's image, and she was a princess, no one dared to think about it, but she didn't expect her to be so out of shape at this time, and her clothes were also very revealing, and several male officers present didn't expect Sophia to appear in front of them with such a "very unseemly" image, and they were stunned on the spot, their eyes were straight, and the beautiful and delicious scene also made these big men swallow a few saliva.

"Owen, how could this be!" Sophia didn't seem to notice anything wrong with what she was wearing, and she ran straight to the bed where Owen was lying, and saw the pale, unconscious teenager. "Owen! Owen ......" After calling softly a few times, seeing that Owen did not react at all, Sophia quickly took off the silver cross hanging around her neck, knelt on the ground next to the bed, and chanted a spell to summon a healing light.

Just when Sophia was busy, Alice lowered her voice and swept the male officers who were staring directly at Sophia's back with stern eyes: "What are you looking at!

Several male officers hurriedly turned their gaze away, and the scene was very embarrassing for a while.

At this time, the female soldier with a woolen shawl and slippers staggered late. Alice took the shawl from the panting female soldier, walked behind Sophia, and tried to cover Sophia with a very light movement, but she was worried about affecting the spell, Alice had to stop, put the shawl on her hand, and waited quietly beside her.

The cold wind was sluggish, and everyone in the room was breathing and waiting patiently.

Twenty minutes later, the light on the cross dimmed. Sophia withdrew the magic she had released, but Owen on the bed showed no signs of waking up. After making sure that the spell was over, Alice put the shawl on Sophia's shoulders, and she was about to ask about Owen, but Sophia put a finger to her lips and signaled her to be quiet.

Alice didn't speak at once, so she silently watched Sophia crouch down and collect the blood on the ground with a cloth.

......

At noon, Joyka, who had been fooling around all day, doing nothing and idle, swaggered back to the Revenge camp.

But as soon as he entered the gate of the camp, he sensed that something was wrong with the atmosphere.

"What?!

"Her Royal Highness the Princess has examined it, and Owen's body has no external injuries, and the blood he vomited out has not found any signs of poisoning. So Sophia speculates that Owen should have been mentally shocked to cause him to fall unconscious. ”

"That's weird. I know Owen, he is immune to almost all psychic attacks, who can seriously injure him in the psychic realm, how can this attacker sneak up on Owen without alarming the layers of guards?Besides, why is the target Owen and not Sophia?" Joika asked a barrage of questions.

"Recently, there have been more and more strange things, one after another, and there is always a feeling that something bad is going to happen. Alice said worriedly.

"It's a bit weird, indeed. "Speaking of strange things, last night...... Alas, forget it. ”

"What happened last night? You don't know something?" Joyka's remarks stopped getting Alice's attention.

"Nothing special. Joyka replied ambiguously with a wave of her hand.

In fact, Joyka has long had a feeling of "the mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings", especially for the calm night last night, he always felt that his memory seemed to be missing, but he could not remember what was missing. However, although it feels strange, Joika, who has a stubborn personality and is independent, is not used to talking about the troubles she encounters and letting others help solve them.

"The Lion Mercenary Regiment will be back to camp in a few days. Joyka, will you promise me?" Alice made her request, "Anyway, spend less time running outside and stay in the camp to help me and Sophia." I don't want anything unexpected to happen until the 'Krait' and the Lion Mercenaries return. ”

"Alright!" Joika stretched deliberately exaggeratedly, "It seems that without me, Uncle Joica, you are really helpless." ”

Alice couldn't stop at Joeyka's hubris, and since the guy had agreed to stay in the camp, she wouldn't say anything more.

......

Another day and one night passed. Alice's worries did not happen, the soldiers and civilians in the Avenger camp continued their daily life of labor and drills as always, but Princess Sophia, who usually appeared every day, did not appear in front of the people today.

The explanation to the outside world is that Her Royal Highness is studying new magic and is at an important juncture of imagination, and several high-ranking officers certainly know the reason, but they were given a gag order by Alice, and she does not want this series of emergencies to cause fluctuations in the hearts of the people and the army.

From the letter received a few days ago, it became known that in two days, the advance force of the Lion Mercenary Regiment would return to the camp. But Alice's heart became more and more uneasy, although Joyka stayed in the camp all day without going out, as he had promised, but this did not alleviate Alice's anxiety in the slightest.

Alice can only dilute this uneasy feeling with crazy work. Alice was exhausted by the lack of rest for more than ten consecutive hours, and her heavy eyelids could no longer be raised, so she had to lie on the desk, and fell asleep with a large pile of documents she had worked on for Sophia.

But the sleeping girl didn't know at this time that at this moment when she was defenseless, a gloomy black shadow had quietly come to her back, showing a bright blade......